User-Friendly Terminology Can Help Reduce the Impact of ICD-10
Health Language, Inc. has launched a new version of its terminology to include clinician friendly synonyms and more than 100,000 attributes for ICD-10-CM.
Semantic Technology Linking Data
Linking data sets via semantic technology is becoming more and more popular in the biomedical and finance industries. This can be credited in part to the Enterprise Data Management Council.
They Can’t Buy It If They Can’t Find It
One online retailer has expanded their website functionality to make findability of their products more user friendly and practical.
Prepare Your Staff for ICD-10 Change
The ICD-10 transition affects every person in your practice or organization. This isn’t a time to surprise them with details.
Measuring Your Social Investment
Dachis Group has launched the Social Performance Monitor (SPM), an online service that helps global companies measure social media's impact on brand performance.
Choose Experts for the Job
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has chosen TEMIS to assist in revamping their online content offering. ASM’s authoritative content, including journal titles dating back to 1916, a rapidly expanding image library, 240 book titles, its news magazine Microbe, and abstracts of meetings and educational publications, is at stake. Their goal is to enhance the search and navigation for true findability.
Of Taxonomies, Biology, and Moneyball
Baseball and biology are not commonly found in the same conceptual space. Neither do you find taxonomy associated with baseball, but in recent news these connections were made. Grant Bisbee, Editor, “Baseball Nation”, digresses into the arcane as he laments the coming of the “He’s In the Best Shape of His Life” season. This is the time of year baseball writers must assess the prospects for the coming season and clichés and hyperbole rein. The dubious practice of evaluating the physical condition of players runs rampant as spring training begins. With tongue in cheek Bisbee tries to shape a taxonomy to classify this spring ritual. His would be the taxonomy of the “In the Best-shape Stories”.
More Software Accommodating ICD-10
ChartWise Medical Systems’s flagship product now provides support for both the current ICD-9 and upcoming ICD-10 coding systems. The ICD-10 transition deadline is scheduled for October 2013 and becoming more and more the subject of much discussion in the healthcare technology industry.
Semantic Technology Can Be Even More Personal
Amidst all the predictions for 2012, many are musing on the role of the Internet in the coming year. Some believe the Internet will become much more personal by allowing users to create their own collection of education, entertainment, social environments and information when and where they choose.
Liferay Community Edition 6.1
Liferay Community Edition V6.1 has been released. It brings a significant list of new features, including some social activity applications, search improvements, some contextual relationship enhancing and user defined lists.